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FUTURE LEGISLATION

30th August 2012, Page 19
30th August 2012
Page 19
Page 19, 30th August 2012 — FUTURE LEGISLATION
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Forthcoming changes in the law brought to you by the Freight Transport Association

Digital tachograph changes The second phase of changes due in October to the specification looks to increase security. To detect tampering, information from an independent motion sensor will be checked against the vehicle unit and any discrepancies will be logged and reported as motion conflict events. Mandatory upgrade or retrofitment is not required.

HSE cost recovery The government is proposing to introduce cost recovery for health and safety enforcement interventions on 1 October. Where an enforcement officer finds a material breach of regulations, the costs for all interventions, such as visits, phone calls, written advice (by letter or email), or issuing improvement or prohibition notices, will be charged using an hourly rate of about £124 until the issue is resolved by an improvement or a prosecution.

Daytime running lamps (DRL) DRLs switch on automatically when the vehicle ignition switch enables the starting/ running of the engine. Already required for new van and car types, new vehicle truck types must have them fitted from 7 August. There are no plans to retrofit or for older vehicles to have to use other lights in the daytime.

Tyre labelling An EU regulation requires all new tyres for sale to be classified and labelled for fuel efficiency, wet grip and noise performance from 1 November. Similar to the labelling of household appliances, the labels will allow potential purchasers to compare these characteristics more easily.

Driver licensing fee changes The DVLA is consulting on proposals to increase driver licence transaction fees to pay for the impending new requirement for vocational licence holders to administratively renew their licences every five years. Options look at how the cost of an additional £19.6bn will be borne by which customers. The changes are expected to be implemented in April 2013. Driving offences penalty changes The Department for Transport proposes to make careless driving a fixed penalty offence and open to the offer of remedial training. Also proposed is an increase in penalties for offences dealt with by way of fixed penalty from £60 to £90 (usually for endorsable offences) and to similarly increase fines for non-endorseable offences. Changes are expected by April 2013.

OCRS changes Vosa has announced that changes originally intended to be implemented on 30 April will come into effect from 1 October. Changes to its OCRS include: straight to red for some serious offences; removal of predictive scoring; an increase in the data set (from two years to three); and a weighting factor based on the age of the event.

EC Whole Vehicle Type Approval (ECWVTA) All new vehicles made or imported for sale in the UK or across the EU cannot be sold or registered for use on the road without an approval – no approval means no sale. Introduced in phases from 2010, ECWVTA will also apply to: existing type medium and heavy CVs and trailers built in a single stage, as well as new type medium and heavy CVs built in multi-stages from October; existing type LCVs built in multistages from October 2013; and existing type medium and heavy CVs built in multistages from October 2014.


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